Breath through your challenges 🌺🌺
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Welcome to the 19th day of the #24yogaposestochristmas challenge. This is my variation of the boat pose, thanks to @nubytoyoga for the inspiration. 💜🙏 This is a challenging pose for me, but I love that! 😋 Finding stillness in a challenging pose, learns you to be calm in challenging situations in life. But how do you find stillness in a challenging pose? Just bring your attention to your breath! Slow your breath down and be in the moment. So next time you find yourself in a challenging situation in life, try to bring your attention to your breath and slow it down. It can help you. 😘😘
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Thank you so much @yoga.according.to.ana @lenakerner @clementine.evrard.yoga for giving me beautiful yoga music from @songsofeden for my yoga pose on day 17th 🙏😘. I am really happy with it 😁💜.
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Day 19 of the #24yogaposestochristmas challenge 🎄
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Beautiful hosts 💕: @clementine.evrard.yoga @yoga.according.to.ana @lenakerner ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🤸🏽‍♀️I'm joining the #stretchandreflect⁣⁣⁣ YOGA CHALLENGE 🧘🏽‍♀️⁣⁣⁣ 25-31 Dec 2018⁣⁣⁣
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Let's consciously reflect on 2018 so we can move into the New year with clarity and purpose. 🙌🏼⁣⁣⁣
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Join these lovely ladies for 7 days of #stretchandreflect as we say goodbye to 2018⁣⁣⁣
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To play along⁣⁣⁣
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▫️FOLLOW all hosts and sponsors⁣⁣⁣
▫️REPOST this and tag 3 friends to let us know you are joining⁣⁣⁣
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▫️POST daily using the hashtag#stretchandreflect and tag all hosts and sponsors⁣⁣⁣
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▫️HAVE FUN and enjoy the challenge respecting your own body⁣⁣⁣
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🤸🏼‍♀️ Asana and reflection of the day 🧘🏼‍♀️⁣⁣⁣
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1. Forward fold – what was your favorite self-care practice that you implemented this year?⁣⁣⁣
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2. Hip opener – what was your most challenging experience this year and how did you overcome it?⁣⁣⁣
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3. Backbend – what was your biggest personal change?⁣⁣⁣
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4. Twist – what new habits did you cultivate?⁣⁣⁣
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5. Arm balance – what was your most powerful learning moment of the year?⁣⁣⁣
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6. Restorative/ grounding/ standing – what are you most thankful for?⁣⁣⁣
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7. Yogis choice – having experienced another year, how will you get into the next year better supporting yourself?⁣⁣⁣
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‘I’m sorry but I can’t square my hips. They just don’t work that way.’ Is what a student told me yesterday in class while practicing virabhadrasana 3.
Typically, people stack the hips in this pose to compensate for tight or weak hip muscles. It results in a pose that is fairly easy to hold as the muscles don’t have to work that hard. But it’s not the correct pose and it’s not benefitting you in any way.
I could empathise with her frustration as it took me a long time to develop my hip muscles and create awareness in that region. You think your hips are squared and then the teacher adjusts you and it’s like a whole new sensation.
It’s easy to say: ‘i have short arms, so i’ll never be able to pick up’ or ‘i can’t balance, my body doesn’t do that’ Because then you blame your inability on something external that you can’t change and you don’t have to take responsibility.
I quickly lowered her raised leg until the pelvis was squared. ‘Look, your hips are squared now, your body is perfectly able to square the hips. You just need to strenghten and stretch the hip muscles’
This is where the process starts. Accepting where you are right now. Practing patience as it takes time to develop muscle and flexibilty. And taking responsibility. Going through the discomfort of ‘sucking’ at it. It’s easier to say: ‘I can’t do that’
How we act on the mat reflects how we deal with life. So maybe this student also blames other seemingly unchangeable things for her current circumstance.
Is there something you say is just not possible for you?
Is it true?
What’s the story you tell yourself?

Day 3 of #yogibee10kgiveaway is #shivapose
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To all my lovelies,
I am so excited to share this with all of you!!
I also want to say THANK YOU to all of you, for encouraging me, supporting and make me feel happy with all your lovely cheers towards my practise.
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I teamed up with some of my favorite apparel brand and accecories to celebrate this happiness.
Thank you so much to all generous sponsors for their generousity🙏🙏🙏
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I am here because of my yoga practise and workout.
and that is why, I am asking you guys to practise with me in 7 happy practise days♥️
Our practise will start on Monday 17th
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♡1. any warming up pose or flow
♡2. any warrior variation pose or flow
♡3. any hamstring pose or flow
♡4. any backbend pose or flow
♡5. any arm balance pose or flow
♡6. any inversions pose or flow
♡7. any cooling down pose or flow
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Please noted, this is a free choice practise, you don't have to flow if you don't want it too.
but you can post the video behind the scene, or your practise when you feel you want it too, I will appreciate both of choice.
Happy practise lovelies
Can't wait to share and grow with all of you ♥️♥️♥️
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How to join the giveaway😊,
1. Repost my #yogibee10kgiveaway flyer
I will be having another flyer too, feel free to repost one of them 🙇‍♀️
2. Follow all generous sponsor and host
3. Tag all sponsors and host, dont forget to use #yogibee10kgiveaway in your daily practise
4. Post your daily practise pose or flow according to the daily theme
5. Make sure your Instagram account is PUBLIC, so I can see your beautiful pose or flow of the day
6. Enjoy the practise 🙏😘
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Let gravity assist your forward fold with a huge dangle. Spend 3-5+ minutes in this forward fold to reap the benefits - the longer the better.
Bending your knees requires more effort (muscular engagement), but will unlock your spine a little more.
Straightening your legs and relaxing your knees requires mobility and flexibility, but will allow you to passively fall into the full range of this fold, opening the whole superficial backline and specifically the lower back region we tend to struggle with!
Learn more at our yin classes, we have 10 each week to choose from, yin every day!

Let’s live in a world where we have more compassion to be better alongside others, lifting each other up rather than trying to be the best, trying to prove something or putting others in a separate box to ourselves. At the end of the day you get what you work for. Comparing yourself to other people will never make you happy. Share your passions and celebrate successes together. You never know the true depth of each individuals struggles, how hard they have worked to be where they are or how long it’s taken them....Rather than being jealous, get your head down and simply work towards what you truly want. Find your why. I’m more clear in my mind than ever before what my why is and how to get there. I will always be supportive and genuinely happy for others success as I would hope those around me would be supportive of me. It’s not always the case but what ever you give out to the universe it will come back to you. 🙏🏻💚 #thehenchyogi photo @lizbrakellphoto

This fills me. There are days where I have self doubt about my impact as a student, guide, mentor and yoga teacher . One of my divine students who is so dedicated to her practice broke her wrist (not at my yoga class !!). You can imagine this impact to an asana practice. As the weight bearing in this joint is a primary requirement for many asana, we work together to support her to practice - and it’s not physical ! I love the transformation that yoga can bring- it’s a privilege to be part of her healing.
The keys to non weight bearing in her left wrist and a strong warrior 2 #virabhadrasana2 * support with activation of shoulder joint and feel the joint
* engage underside of forearm
*if the length is there focus upon length in the middle fingers and expand fingers * watch the neck !
*ask yourself always - does this hurt me in Yoga and do I have pain in this yoga asana - context is important * in this clients case, she has a splint and screws in her wrist - so we are limited to no grasping or clenching too
* we focus on breathe pranayama and meditation for pain management * we focus on meta physical aspects of healing - hands wrists left side //// grasping, out of reach, support, and love 💕
I love that she is still coming to our intensive on 27/28th - her tribe and community - “her happy place “
Ahimsa - to do no harm
Sigh 😔🙏🤸‍♀️ 💖 #gratitude#grateful#yogaforall#modifyyouryoga#asana#wristinjury#yoga#ahimsa#sundarayogatownsville

I have a conversation on a weekly basis with at least one person at the yoga studios I teach and once again had it this morning. It usually starts off with "Wait...you're not a full-time yoga instructor?" It's funny to see the surprise on peoples' faces when I say "No, I have a 9-5 gig.at a pharmaceutical company. I teach yoga for fun” (full-stop). They see me in this light and not as a corporate guy
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But the irony is I actually have a similar conversation at work too when people find out I teach yoga. That conversation usually kicks off with "Where do you find the time?" I make the time: if it means waking up an hour or so earlier on weekdays to teach before work, or losing an hour of sitting on the couch and watching Netflix after work, it's a small price to pay because it's something I'm passionate about and love sharing with others.
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I was talking with male co-worker the last week and he was genuinely impressed that I 1) do yoga and 2) teach it. He said he was curious to try it, but--like many men--scared to actually step into a studio and not be good at it. I told him all the stereotypical yoga responses, "it doesn't matter about how flexible you are," "just showing up is what's important, "....yadda yadda yadda. As we kept talking, I noticed a shift during the conversation and he said he'd give a class a try at the gym. I don't know if he has yet or not, but it was pretty cool to share a little about me and possibly get one more dude in the yoga dudes tribe. The ball is in his court. 🧘‍♂️ ✌️